Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Marco Polo Didn’t Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer USA Today has called “Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age.” For the past ten years, Rolf Potts has taken his keen postmodern travel sensibility into the far fringes of five continents for such prestigious publications as National Geographic Traveler, Salon.com, and The New York Times Magazine. This book documents his boldest, funniest, and most revealing journeys—from getting stranded without water in the Libyan desert, to crashing the set of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie in Thailand, to learning the secrets of Tantric sex in a dubious Indian ashram.

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Overview

Marco Polo Didn’t Go There is a collection of rollicking travel tales from a young writer USA Today has called “Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age.” For the past ten years, Rolf Potts has taken his keen postmodern travel sensibility into the far fringes of five continents for such prestigious publications as National Geographic Traveler, Salon.com, and The New York Times Magazine. This book documents his boldest, funniest, and most revealing journeys—from getting stranded without water in the Libyan desert, to crashing the set of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie in Thailand, to learning the secrets of Tantric sex in a dubious Indian ashram.

Marco Polo Didn’t Go There is more than just an entertaining journey into fascinating corners of the world. The book is a unique window into travel writing, with each chapter containing a “commentary track”—endnotes that reveal the ragged edges behind the experience and creation of each tale. Offbeat and insightful, this book is an engrossing read for students of travel writing as well as armchair wanderers.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781932361711
  • Publisher: Travelers' Tales Guides, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 4/1/2009
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 344
  • Sales rank: 347,498
  • File size: 607 KB

Meet the Author

USA Today has called Rolf Potts "Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age." For the past ten years he has taken his keen postmodern travel sensibility into the far-flung reaches of five continents as a writer for publications such as Slate.com, National Geographic Traveler, the New York Times Magazine, Outside, Conde Nast Traveler, and National Public Radio. He writes the column “Traveling Light” for Yahoo! and has a large and faithful online following. He’s also the author of Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel. When he’s not traveling he lives in Kansas, where he was born and raised.

Table of Contents

Introduction Marco Polo Didn't Go There

Pt. 1 Adventures and Misadventures

1 Storming The Beach 3

2 Road Roulette 28

3 Toura Incognita 40

4 Be Your Own Donkey 58

5 Something Approaching Enlightenment 71

6 Turkish Knockout 83

Pt. 2 I'm a Tourist, You're a Tourist

7 Tantric Sex for Dilettantes 103

8 The Barbecue Jesus and Other Epiphanies 115

9 Going Native in the Australian Outback 127

10 Backpackers' Ball at the Sultan Hotel 156

11 Death of an Adventure Traveler 175

Pt. 3 The Dubious Thrill of Press Trips

12 Cycladian Rhythm 191

13 Seven (or So) Sins on the Isle of Spice 201

14 Virgin Trail 217

Pt. 4 People You Don't Forget

15 My Beirut Hostage Crisis 247

16 Up Cambodia without a Phrasebook 266

17 Islam's Bloody Celebration 279

18 Digging Mr. Benny's Dead Uncle 289

19 The Living Museum of Everywhere and Nowhere 300

Pt. 5 Tutorial

20 The Art of Writing a Story about Walking across Andorra 311

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